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Hugh Kearney

@myfisttoe.bsky.social

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Engineer, Husband, Dad, and ex-Miata owner (electric cars are awesome). No smokers or Republicans, always punch a fascist.

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Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 3h

Slab culture?

Well, now there's another research hole I've gotta go down.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 3h

Is the owner channeling Messala from Ben Hur?

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12h

Every time I see a portrait of that guy, I'm reminded that they imported the entire family from Hanover.

Dude looks so German he should be wearing lederhosen 24/7.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 21h

I wasn't mocking them. I was making fun of the idea that No Kings protesters were members of Hamas.

Besides, I'm 54 and I was out there with them.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 1d

There were so many grandparents at No Kings in Largo, FL.

Not surprising, it is Florida.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 1d

That weird feeling I get when I realize the things I like are a little cringey.

Musicals
Phil Collins era Genesis
Protesting for democracy

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

RE: point 2.

As Adam Neely says frequently about music, "Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes."

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

I am by nature a morning person, but that always worked against me when I was younger. My friends wanted to shut down the bar, and I wanted to be asleep 3-4 hours earlier.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently they do have defensive backs.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

Dude would be American Keir Starmer, turned up to eleven.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

Helps if you're involved enough to cut the cord.

I don't think Kennedy was ever even in the delivery room.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d

Part of the problem is that Frito-Lay found the best version of Doritos when they stumbled on Cool Ranch. This was their second flavor, and they've been chasing the dragon ever since.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 3d

I remember when George W. Bush's cocaine use was a youthful mistake he committed at the tender age of forty.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 4d

Why are they confessing?

They're not confessing, they're bragging.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 4d

I would hope that a Rome to Venice cruise would be good enough on its own. Who thinks a visit to the Coliseum would be improved by the presence of Scott Walker?

Maybe they will feed him to the lions...

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 5d

I had a high school friend who was in the front row of that video. When it premiered, I was like, "Holy shit, it's Grant!"

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 9d

Well, it's essentially a conspiracy theory, and if you trace any given conspiracy theory it will inevitably end up in an antisemitic root.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 9d

Doesn't that act involve four dimensional geometry?

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 9d

My sister said you should never let a male tattoo artist ink a blade on you because he will inevitably draw his penis.

I never would have worried about a paw...until now.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 11d

I love that the Russo-Japanese War was essentially a preview of WWI, but nobody in Western Europe paid attention due to racial prejudice against the Japanese and utter contempt for the Russians.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 11d

Jay Gould famously said, "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

I don't think even he thought the hired half would do it for an IOU.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 11d

If there were only a half million cars in the world, they could all get eight miles a gallon and it wouldn't affect the climate in any noticeable way.

This report is gaslighting the innumerate.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12d

This phase isn't fully exited until they can buckle themselves in.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 12d

That's the literary version of getting made in the Mafia.

Hugh Kearney @myfisttoe.bsky.social · 13d

You should have read The Secret Garden instead. Yeah, it's 114 years old and children's literature, but Frances Burnett still manages to pull off suspense and wonder a million times better than Dan Brown.